Well, I'm now at Felden Lodge getting ready for my week as chaplain to the young officers' training course. My aim is to communicate the fundamentals of Christianity through the week. I'm going to use clips from the New Series of Doctor Who, to help to illustrate this.
My first major problem was a technical one. My presentation software (which is the excellent, and highly recommended EasyWorship) does not play DVD clips under Windows Vista. This is because MS have taken the step of getting all software people to patent their Codecs. What this means, is that if you have one program that plays DVDs, it cannot share this skill with other prgrams. Unlike in Windows Vista.
I had to rather humiliatingly ask if I could borrow a laptop that had an older version of Windows on it just so I could use the basic functionality of cueing up my DVD clips for my presentations. Hummphh. Not impressed.
Ah well. The old version of Windows works swimmingly. I've just cued up the clips for my first session. Rather unfortunately titled, the first two clips to get people thinking about God, are from the episode "The Satan Pit".
Better go -- we have a Staff Meeting in just a moment!
PS Just spoke to someone who was rather alarmed to hear some of my more radical ideas in youth work!
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And what would those radical views of youthwork be?? I'm intrigued now!!
Good post.
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